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title: "Each individual counts:  rescuing threatened albatrosses from hooks and storms"
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# Each individual counts:  rescuing threatened albatrosses from hooks and storms

Back in February this year a hooked albatross was seen and caught from a tour vessel of [Tasman Island Cruises](http://www.tasmancruises.com.au/) off the coast of Tasmania, Australia.  It was released at sea the next day after the hook was successfully removed from its bill ashore ([click here](http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/challenge-to-get-seabirds-off-the-hook-20100315-q928.html) for the original news story on the event).

 More information on this bird, identified as a Gibson's Albatross *Diomedea antipodensis gibsoni*, has now been published along with several photographs in the July 2010 issue (No. 45) of *The Albatross*, newsletter of the Southern Ocean Seabird Study Association ([SOSSA](http://www.sossa-international.org)).

 For another albatross rescue story, this time from New Zealand of a Northern Royal Albatross *D. sanfordi*, blown into a suburban garden during a storm, [click here](http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/3452784/Storm-blows-albatross-into-suburban-yard).  For news of a Shy Albatross *Thalassarche cauta* being unhooked [click here](http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/28/2726718.htm?section=justin).

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/N/Northern_Royal_Albatross_500th_chick_by_Lyndon_Perriman.jpg "Northern Royal Albatross and chick.  Photograph by Lyndon Perriman ")

 Back issues of *The Albatross* from No. 1 of July 1993 may be found at [http://www.sossa-international.org/Pages/Front%20Pages/Newsletters.htm](http://www.sossa-international.org/Pages/Front%20Pages/Newsletters.htm).

 See also: [http://www.acap.aq/2007-news-archive/rehabilitation-of-wandering-albatross](https://www.acap.aq/2007-news-archive/rehabilitation-of-wandering-albatross) and [http://www.acap.aq/latest-news/from-the-south-atlantic-to-canadas-interior-an-atlantic-yellow-nosed-albatross-turns-up-on-lake-ontario](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/from-the-south-atlantic-to-canadas-interior-an-atlantic-yellow-nosed-albatross-turns-up-on-lake-ontario).

 **Reference:**

 Whylie, B. 2010.  One albatross off the hook.  *The Albatross* 45: 7-8.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 30 August 2010*